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The Lastmaker

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“The Lastmaker is full of balanced contradictions as it follows a deliberately fractured internal logic. Cryptic yet transparent, it is mathematical in construction and poetic in content.”
-The Times (London)

“Goat Island is simply one of the most important theatre groups working today.”
-BBC 4 Radio (UK)

“A haunting meditation about change, finality, footprints and moving on.”
-The Herald, Glasgow

What begins as an architectural dance, in detailed triadic rounds, becomes haunted by the restless and reckless ghosts of the past. Inspired by the historical trajectory of the Hagia Sophia: church/mosque/museum, Goat Island premiers their ninth and final piece as the ultimate farewell. In their signature style of physically demanding choreography, Goat Island examines how to say “good-bye” and looks at how places hold layers of different identities over time. The Lastmaker recapitulates 20 years of Goat Island, in what will surely be a fitting conclusion to their contribution – a journey, within a restrained structure, from the intellectual to the emotional, with lasting resonance.

Goat Island is a Chicago-based collaborative performance group founded in 1987 and incorporated in 1989 as a non-profit organization to produce collaborative performance works developed by its members for local, national, and international audiences. Goat Island’s last performance will be performed in New York City at Performance Space 122.

Photo courtesy of Hugo Glendinning

November 6-16, 2008
Thu-Sun 7:30pm
Tickets from $25
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122 members)

Death

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“It’s nerve is undeniable.”
-The Village Voice

“Sara Juli gives of herself.”
-The New York Times

“A gutsier look at self worth…”
– Gia Kourlas, The New York Times (on The Money Conversation)

“A light of the downtown dance and theatre scene”
-The New Yorker

Death is scary, awkward, fearsome and inevitable-we have no choice but to face our ultimate fate. Following the success of her internationally acclaimed show, ‘The Money Conversation’, Juli asks her audience to address the one thing we all can’t escape.

With her unique arsenal of movement, spoken word, and song Sara confronts the universal demon. Let’s talk about death. No, really. Let’s face it, deal with it, think about it, laugh about it and really talk about it. In other words, let’s not change the subject. In a society that focuses all its attention on staying young, where graveyards are far removed and called the more innocuous cemeteries and “resting places,” the question is not how do we deal with death – but do we deal with death at all?

Listen to an interview with Sara Juli on the InfiniteBody Podcast

Photo courtesy of Andrea Fischman

Oct 24-Nov 2
Wed-Sun 8:30pm

Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122 members)

The Society

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“Expertly straddles the fragile line between humor and horror.”
-GIA KOURLAS, New York Times (full review)

“The Jo Strømgren Kompani has never appeared in New York City. It is time it came.”
-Jennifer Dunning, New York Times

As a society of sworn coffee drinkers gather for their daily ritual the harmony is broken by a horrific incident: the discovery of a used teabag. As the investigations unfold the questions become more complicated. Do they have a domestic traitor among them or is the teabag a symbol of a much larger global scenario? How far will they have to go in order to track the traitor down, smoke him out, and bring this evil act to justice?

Jo Strømgren Kompani mirrors the macro-world by scrutinizing basic elements of contemporary phenomena: in our turbulent times the average citizen is ever more tempted to accept torture, suppression of minorities, and other violent means in order to restore order and avoid a clash of civilizations. Can theatre contribute to change this? JSK neglects any responsibility to join that debate. Rather, JSK pursues its signature fart-in-the-universe quest to pinpoint utterly sad human behavior.

Jo Strømgren Kompani’s has created its own international niche through its long-term research on abstract text. Each production performed by JSK involves a completely new linguistic alias, inspired by a specific culture or region. Worldwide success in 45 countries has proven this nonsensical language manifesto to be more than just a temporary funny idea. For all audiences: Don’t panic, the performers do not even know what is being said on stage.

Co-presented with The Abrons Arts Center.
The Society is supported by Arts Council Norway, the Royal Norwegian Consulate General, and the American-Scandinavian Foundation.

Photo courtesy of Knut Bry

October 15-19, 2008
Wed-Sat 8:30pm
Sun 6:30pm
At the Abrons Arts Center located at 466 Grand St.
Tickets from $25
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (PS122 members)

Special Event:
OPENING NIGHT BENEFIT
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15 8:30pm
The Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St.

Support P.S. 122 and join us as we celebrate with the cast and welcome
Sissel Breie, the new Norwegian Consul General.

Ticket $100
(of which $75 is tax deductible)
Includes premium seating and post-show reception.

BLIND.NESS

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John Del Signore, Gothamist, raves:
‘You’ll go wild for this”
is “dark and steamy”

The globe trotting, discipline-bending, unmistakably downtown WaxFactory presents a stellar female cast on an emotional roller coaster ride across the dark, and ultimately humorous underbelly of love. Part audio-visual installation, part dance-theatre, BLIND.NESS looks at what transpires when love becomes a four-letter word.

Directed by Ivan Talijancic, written by Slovenian playwright Simona Semenic, featuring sublime video by Antonio Giacomin of Italy, architectural design of Minimart, the sounds of electronica duo Random Logic and WaxFactory’s own Erika Latta, this tour-de-force will surely break, mend, and break your heart.

BLIND.NESS is a co-production of Performance Space 122 and Cankarjev Dom (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Past press for WaxFactory includes:
“…She Said’ is a 45 minute visual gem. It was perceptive of Ivan Talijancic to recognize this coldly erotic, deeply ambiguous story as potent foil for their technical wizardry.”
-Jonathan Kalb, The New York Times

Photo courtesy of Tasja Keetman

Presented as part of COIL 2010

Wed, Jan 6 – Tue, Jan 12, 2010
PS122 Premiere Oct 12-Nov 1, 2008

Diptyque

Celebrated choreographer Rachid Ouramdane and director Pascal Rambert’s two pieces comprise a third through the experience of comparing and contrasting these two works, challenging the audience to forge a complete oeuvre from two separate parts.

The Diptyque is created through collaboration between these two leading French artists and a US collaborator, this is a double presentation, in both spaces, of two major works, set in conjunction and contrast with each other. Both are solos engaged in fascinating ways with identity, one in blinding whiteness, the other in blinding blackness.

Without realizing it, the artists often speak to each other. With My Own Hands presents a naked woman, with male genitals on a plinth, each body part microscopically lit. A Standing Boy is a solo performance featuring Rambert surrounded by projections of nature. Gender, presence and the idea of the performer are all thrown into confusion in this dizzy two-bodied free fall.

A Standing Boy is produced by: Production L’A.
Co-produced by: La Menagerie de Verre – Paris, Theatre Bonlieu Scene nationale Annecy, Association
Side One Posthume Theatre
With the support of French ministry of Culture (CNC-Dicream program)

With My Own Hands is produced by: Theatre 2 Gennevilliers.
Coproduced by Association Side One Posthume Theatre, Bonlieu Scene Nationale – Annecy, La Menagerie de Verre.
This text is published by Les Solitaires Intempestifs.

This production is a co-presentation with the French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF) as part of Crossing the Line 2008. This production is supported by a grant from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States

For more information please visit https://www.theatre2gennevilliers.com/
and https://www.rachidouramdane.com/

Photo courtesy of Patrick Imbert

Oct 3-4, 2008
Standing Boy: Fri and Sat 7:30pm
With My Own Hands: Fri and Sat 9:00pm